MTC 1st Day

I better start with the weekend.  All our family arrived and Friday night we took Courtney and Kaylee to the Oquirrh Mt. Temple to do baptisms.  They have made it a goal to go every month and are doing great at keeping that goal.  Saturday we all went to Brigham City for the open house of the new temple.  It was beautiful.

Sunday we spoke in Church in the River Ridge 9th Ward.  What a great ward family we have here.  Everyone has made us feel so welcome and at home.  After Sacrament meeting we went to the Stake Center where President Snow, Duke, and DeMill set us apart as missionaries.  Elder and Sister Victor were also with us and were set apart at the same time.  We are blessed to be going with friends from our home ward. 

President DeMill,  Elder & Sister Lewis, Elder & Sister Victor, Karen Bradshaw, Bishop Bradshaw, President Snow and President Duke.  

Monday morning we checked into the MTC around 10:30 where we received our orientation and met the other 33 couples and 5 senior sisters who will be with us this week.  It is thrilling to hear where everyone is going.  Most are serving in temples throughout the world like Keiv Russia, Columbia, Argentina, Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Boston, Hong Kong, PA, Siberia, can't remember all the rest.  It is so exciting to be apart of this great work.  Some important comments we heard throughout the day.

• Thrilled to be here
• Bless the lives of those we serve
• This is a defining moment
• Keep a record for your posterity
• "I will go before your face" D&C 84:88 (this applies to you and me)
• Significance of doctrine of Christ taught throughout the Book of Mormon
• "Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape"
• The most important thing you take with you on your mission is YOU
• The language you learn is an eternal gift which will be used throughout eternity